Month: February, 2016

This is so true that it’s hilarious. And sad. Any time I try to do something a little nontrivial for the front-end, it goes downhill so quickly. It’s like you are at this bizarre Home Depot with a million tools and you aren’t quite sure what they do because the most of the instruction manuals are missing pages or are just completely absent. There are very few that are complete.

You went there trying to get some nails and a hammer to hang a picture at home. But the nails only come in package that includes a lava lamp, a sledgehammer that weighs 50 lbs, and 217 blocks of assorted shapes, sizes, and colors. You get a hammer that seems to be the most popular but then you read a blog post from a carpenter ninja rockstar who has come out with a new hammer-design (and a cool name: “Hamm.ür”) that everyone is raving about and is a huge improvement over the new one and has started a new company that is already building and selling it. Home Depot also just happens to have it. You decide to get the new one; the old one wasn’t that actively supported by the manufacturer anymore anyway. In fact, it was just made by one guy in his garage and no one had seen him in a year and he rarely answered his phone or responded to emails. The new hammer does also come in a package with other stuff but at this point you really just want to hang that picture because that thing has been sitting against the wall for months.

You get home and finally start to hammer in the nail but end up burning your house down because the hammer replaced the lava lamp’s power adapter with a bare copper wire that set your curtains on fire. When you complain that using bare copper is unsafe and that they shouldn’t come with hammers or replace power adapters in a lava lamp that you didn’t even want in the first place, because seriously why the hell does anyone sell lava lamps with nails, you get told “Stfu noob! Copper is like the second-best fucking conductor and it is cheaper than silver and bare copper is so much lighter than a whole stupid adapter; seriously weren’t you just complaining about not wanting extra shit with what you buy?”